Display-stand



No. 62|,l30. Patented Mar. l4. I899.

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DISPLAY STAND.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT LEE PEYTON, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

DISPLAY-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 621,130, dated March14, 1899.

Application filed July 20, 1898- Serial No. 686,419. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT LEE PEYTON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oakland, county of Alameda, State of California, haveinvented an Improvement in Display- Stands; and I hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to improvements in display-stands of that classwhich are employed in show-windows and especially designed for theexhibition of silks, dry goods, ribbons, trimmings, and generally goodsof similar classes.

It consists in the parts and the constructions and combinations of partshereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a general view of my stand. Fig. 2 shows the attachment of adisk with arms and bars. the form of cascades. Fig. 4 is an end view ofdisk with arms, with brackets attached to it. Fig. 5 is a plan of thesame, showing the brackets in different positions.

In the usual methods for displaying goods in windows various forms ofsupport are used, in most of which intermediate boards or poles must belaid upon these supports, and in many cases portions of the interior ofthe window-space employed to assist in supporting the goods.

My invention is designed to employ a plurality of movableinterchangeable stands upon which the entire display can be arrangedwithout resorting to the sides of the windowspace for any portion of thesupport.

My stand is here shown as composed of telescopic sections A, B, and O toany desired number, each slidable in the section below and adjusted atany desired height by setscrews, as shown at a. The lower section A .isprovided with short rearwardly and outwardly projecting legs A and along forwardly-projecting front leg A This construction enables me tomove the stand close to the rear of the window, if desired, on accountof the short rearward legs which project nearly in the plane of the backof the stand, while the long front leg serves to oounteract thetendencyof the forwardly-projecting shelves and parts at the upper partof the stand to tip the stand over in a forward di- Fig. 3 representsthe display in reotion. Upon the upper or either of the intermediatesections are shelves D D, either rectangular, oval, circular, or ofother desired shape. These shelves are fixed to bracketarms d, whichradiate from sleeves or collars d, and these sleeves are secured at anydesired height by set-screws 01 The shelves serve to support the goods,silks, or other draper-y which may be laid upon them in bolts. When therectangular shelf is used, a bolt of silk, for instance, may be laidupon the shelf in front of the standard and unrolled and drapeddownwardly and forwardly to the floor with puffs or any ornamentalarrangement desirable, the front bracing-leg preventing the weight fromoverturning the stand.

If it is desired to display the goods in a curved form or resembling thearrangement of a gown, the round or oval shelf may be em ployed, theedge giving the curvature of the upper portion and the folds of thegoods extending downward and outward from the shelf to the floor, withthe goods falling in folds to show them'to the best-advantage, therebeing no necessity for supporting the goods from the window-recess orany part of the main fixed portion thereof. In conjunction with theseshelves it is often desirable to show the various trimmings which areused with the particular goods displayed. For this purpose I have showna circular disk E, having arms E extending outwardly therefrom inopposite directions. These arms or bars may be made of any suitable ordesired length and have holes e in the outer ends, into which round barsF, bent at right angles, may have the inner ends inserted, the outerends extending outwardly to a considerable distance, and thus extendingthe length of the device as much as may be desired. The ends of the armsE are upturned, as shown, and have grooves or notches made in them, asshown at e to support the extension-arms F and prevent their swingingout of place. Around the central disk E are similar holes 6, into whichthe downturned ends of the bars F may also be inserted,

F rest, so as to prevent their turning out of place when goods aredisposed upon them, the device thus forming an easily-adjustable and atthe same time sufficiently rigid support for goods. If it is desired todrape the goods from any one of these bars F, it may be done by throwinga fold of the goods over the bar, letting the ends hang down directly tothe floor with any suitable pufis or folds to make an attractiveexhibit.

F shows abar similar to the bars F, but having the short bend made atless than a right angle, so that when this end is inserted into one ofthe openings 6 the longerportion of the bar will extend at an anglerising from the point where it is supported. In this case the uppertelescopic section 0 of the standard has a segmental groove 0 made inthe upper end. The disk E, being held in position by a setscrew passingthrough its hub, is fixed to the standard 0 at a point which will allowthe bar F to rest in the notch or groove at the upper end of thestandard. This steadies the bar, allowing it to project in eitherdirection, depending upon the hole 6, in which its short end is fixed.When this bar is adjusted with the short end in one of the holes 6, thebar I may extend forwardly, resting in the notch in the top of thestandard 0, and the front end rises at a considerable angle. Thematerial to be exhibited, when thrown over this bar, will naturallyextend forward instead of straight downwardly and will hang upon thebar, being supported for the full length, while at the same time thebottom is thrown outward at the front to exhibit the goods in thisposition without the necessity of making a fold or pinning the goods upat the top and front, as would be the case if this display weresupported upon a horizontal bar or arm. When itis desired to show thegoods in successive banks or cascades from the rear of the window-spaceto the front, a series of these stands may be set up in any desired format the rear and extended to as great aheight as may be desired, in frontof these a second series of a lesser height, and in front of these againanother series, the standards of which are still more shortened, withany desired arrangement of each series so as to produce the desiredeffect.

In some cases'it is desirable to show the goods upon flat supports,which may either stand vertically or at a certain incline. For thispurpose I have shown brackets G, to the front of which are fixed,byscrew or otherwise, the fiat boards H. In the present case I have showntwo of these brackets, and the boards II, which are fixed to the twobrackets, are brought together at the adjacent edges and hinged, asshown at I. The brackets G are provided with short stems J, one of whichstands at right angles with the bracket and another one, J, stands at anacute angle therewith. Either of these stems may be inserted in theholes 6 of the disk E and at such points that the boards H may standvertically or at an angle. When the pins J are inserted in the holes,the boards will stand vertically, and they may be turned so as to standin a common plane as they are hinged, or the bracket may be so set as toturn the boards at an angle with each other in the same manner that theleaves of a standing screen are turned. If it is desired to throw thebottom of these hinged boards outward, the inclined pins J will beinserted in the holes, and this will throw the boards outwardly, thusforming an inclined support which, as before, may be either plain orbent about the hinge to make an irregular surface.

The various devices here shown can be united in almost endlesscombinations for as many differentforms of display or exhibit as may befound desirable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A window display-stand consisting of vertically-slidable telescopicsections with holding-screws, a base comprising divergent legs, shelvesslidable upon the telescopic sections with sockets and holding-screwsand a grooved or notched disk also slidable upon the standard withgrooved or notched arms extending horizontally and in oppositedirections, said disk and arms having holes made through them and radialand extension bars having the ends bent at right angles and fittingholes in the disk and its arms substantially as described.

V 2. A display-stand comprising telescopic adjustable standard-sectionswith divergent base+legs and adjustable shelves at the top, incombination with a disk having arms extending in opposite directions,vertical perforations in the ends of the arms and similar perforationsmade around the disk, bars bent at right angles with the shorter membersfitting into said perforations and the longer members forming extensionsof the main bars and radial projections around the central portion ofthe disk.

3. In a display-stand, a vertically-adjustable standard, a disk slidablyfitted thereon with holding-screw and having a peripheral upturnedflange with grooves upon the upper edge thereof, holes made verticallythrough the disk radially in line with the grooves of the flange, andarms extending horizontally from opposite sides of the disk, withupturned outer ends, with grooves formed therein and bars bent at rightangles with the short members fitting the holes in the disk or in the.

arms and the extended horizontal portion resting in the grooves ornotches whereby radial supports are formed around the disk, andextensions upon each side of the center thereof.

4;. A display-stand of the character described, a vertically-adjustablestandard'with a disk slidable upon the standard and means for securingit at any point,-arms extending horizontally upon opposite sides of thedisk and having vertical perforations therein and around the disk, and abracket-piece having pins adapted to fit the perforations, boardssecured to the bracket-piece and adjustable therewith so as to extendvertically or diagonally with relation to the standard.

5. In a display-stand of the character described,horizontaloppositely-extending arms having a central disk and socket slidable andadjustable upon the verticalstandard, brackets having boards secured tothe front faces and pins extending downwardly, both diagonally and atright angles with the bracket and adapted to fit into the holes in thehorizontal arms so as to set the face-boards either vertically ordiagonally, and hinges by which said boards are united at their adjacentedges.

6. In a display-stand of the character dehand.

ROBERT LEE PEYTON.

lVitnesses:

F. N. GIRARD, J. E. WHITEHEAD.

